Muthu Venkitasubramaniam

Muthu Venkitasubramaniam is a professor of computer science at Georgetown University, with a PhD from Cornell and earlier faculty posts at the University of Rochester, first as assistant and then as associate professor. Venkitasubramaniam is a co-inventor of the Ligero zero-knowledge proof system and cofounder and CEO of Ligero Inc., a company building private payments infrastructure on zero-knowledge cryptography. A 2023 co-authored paper, Batchman and Robin, received a Distinguished Paper Award at ACM CCS, and a 2024 paper at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy introduced Ligetron, a zero-knowledge proof system that runs in a browser.

6 talks by Muthu Venkitasubramaniam